The host, a self-proclaimed "hard copy person," used the AI app Speechify to consume a digital book he otherwise would have skipped. By selecting celebrity voices like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow, he made the content more accessible and enjoyable, highlighting a novel productivity hack for auditory learners.
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Instead of debating AI's creative limits, The New Yorker pragmatically adopted it to solve a production bottleneck. AI-generated voiceovers make written pieces available for listening "well nigh immediately," expanding reach to audio-first consumers without compromising the human-led creative process of the articles themselves.
People are wary when AI replaces or pretends to be human. However, when AI is used for something obviously non-human and fun, like AI dogs hosting a podcast, it's embraced. This strategy led to significant user growth for the "Dog Pack" app, showing that absurdity can be a feature, not a bug.
Amy Porterfield dictates her personal stories to ChatGPT, then prompts it to extract the key parts into a concise draft. This uses AI as a partner for clarity and structure while preserving her authentic voice, avoiding soulless, AI-generated content.
While most focus on human-to-computer interactions, Crisp.ai's founder argues that significant unsolved challenges and opportunities exist in using AI to improve human-to-human communication. This includes real-time enhancements like making a speaker's audio sound studio-quality with a single click, which directly boosts conversation productivity.
A contrarian take on learning suggests that non-fiction books are an inefficient use of time. A single, hour-long podcast interview with the author can often distill 80% of the book's core concepts. For busy professionals, this is a massive time-saving heuristic for acquiring new knowledge, reserving deep reading for only the most essential topics.
A powerful learning hack: 1) Ask an LLM (like Gemini) for a deep research guide on a topic. 2) Paste the text into Google's NotebookLM. 3) Prompt NotebookLM to "create a five-minute podcast" summarizing the material. This transforms dense information into a quick, digestible audio primer for learning on the go.
Business owners and experts uncomfortable with content creation can now scale their presence. By cloning their voice (e.g., with 11labs) and pairing it with an AI video avatar (e.g., with HeyGen), they can produce high volumes of expert content without stepping in front of a camera, removing a major adoption barrier.
Identify an expert who hasn't written a book on a specific topic. Train an AI on their entire public corpus of interviews, podcasts, and articles. Then, prompt it to structure and synthesize that knowledge into the book they might have written, complete with their unique frameworks and quotes.
Author Lee Saos, despite writing seven books, dislikes reading. This forces him to create content he himself would consume: highly practical, story-driven, and focused on implementation with workshops and tools. This ensures broader appeal beyond avid readers.
Despite the focus on text interfaces, voice is the most effective entry point for AI into the enterprise. Because every company already has voice-based workflows (phone calls), AI voice agents can be inserted seamlessly to automate tasks. This use case is scaling faster than passive "scribe" tools.
